Applied AI Agent Engineer

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

DeepMind in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Software Engineer for Applied AI Agents within Professional Intelligence. You will collaborate with ML and neuroscience researchers to build and test agent systems, including 2D/3D game testing, physics simulations, visualization, and leaderboards.

The role emphasizes end-to-end production code, evaluation suites, grounding and citation checks, and deploying robust agent software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in Python or TypeScript with modern toolchains and frameworks.
• Experience building/shipping applications powered by LLMs: prompting, tool use or function calling, retrieval-augmented generation, and agent orchestration.
• Experience designing evaluations for LLM or ML systems and using them to drive measurable quality improvements.
• Experience owning production software end-to-end, from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring and iteration on user feedback.
• Experience using coding agents to develop code and tests to specification.

Responsibilities

• Create systems for agent testing using 2D and 3D games.
• Develop test problems within physics simulators.
• Create graphical visualizations of results.
• Build competitive agent leaderboards.
• Test new algorithms on robots.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

LLM apps

End-to-end production

Agent coding

Evaluations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

DeepMind in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Software Engineer for Applied AI Agents within Professional Intelligence. You will collaborate with ML and neuroscience researchers to build and test agent systems, including 2D/3D game testing, physics simulations, visualization, and leaderboards.

The role emphasizes end-to-end production code, evaluation suites, grounding and citation checks, and deploying robust agent software.